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Not much progress, but I took a non-cyclist friend for a spin to the woods. She listened to me talk about the bikes a bit, then tried the pink one. She loved how it rode, and called me a nerd.

booo

Or that jack brown 33.33333c size

My unit

hot hot hoot

needs a brooks or sth

Yeah I think I'm with you now.

But are you thinking like thinner tyres tend to be faster? Because I'm a Jan Heine wanker and I take issue with that. If width doesn't matter, then it'd be just as good/better to run two balloons, the front knobby?

They're 175mm

By 'only one fast' you mean fast and slippy in the back and slow and grippy in the front?

See this makes more sense because of faster accelleration in the rear (smaller wheel) and better rollover in the front. At least in MTB.

Either way would make no difference whatsoever on road(ish), wouldn't it? I wouldn't have noticed the Crust's wheels at all from just the photo.

Someone please justify this mullet thing with some loose haphazard reasoning so I have a reason to do this on my bike. I have all the bits ready.

Why not Klite 'gravel' version?

Sure, I'll check it out tonight.

Sorry realised I might have ignored previous queries, forgot I have Two fsa cranksets up on sale.

fsa cranks, dia compe rack, and all but jack brown tyres gone now

Nah, they'll only be good for centerpull bolts.

£10 barend tektro levers
£sold little dia compe racky that mounts on centerpull brake bolts. Won't fit on canti bosses.

All prices include postage. Pickup from Dundee.

£gone Fabric 134cm demo saddle w a cutout
£15 shimano 11sp flat bar road shifters
£sold Pair of Schwalbe g-one all round 700 40 tyres pair - not much wear
£10 Stronglight escapist double right crank 46/30 edit: forgot to mention, the big ring is a tiny bit bent, just about noticable when pushing harder. Should be easy to fix but I can't be faffed.
£25 FSA crankset 32t cog 73mm axle 175mm plus chain with little wear. Pulled off a Kona Unit stock build.
£10 Formula flip flop hub 32h
£sold FSA double crankset 110 bcd
£sold Pair of Michelin lithium 25mm tyres, one with little wear, one new
£10 Jack Brown 700 33.5 tyre, tanwall, new but opened.

Well that's just lovely.

Back to drops for the pink guy.
I need more height in the bars but the only tall 31.8 clamp stem around is that horrid adjustable one?

Serendipitously, minutes after realising the height problem, a bid for 42cm 25.4 nitto randonneur bars was finishing up, so I scooped those. I have a narrower (31.8) nitto randos and love them. Need a stem next, then the fit should finally be fine. Just need to guesstimate the reach, probably minimal.

Some progress on the grey raleigh. Found a vice for the stays, I could've been bolder on the driveside, but I think it should work. There's a bit more room on the other side. Might add another few extra mm.
Brake hole drilled.
Headset is being weird. Like five bearings all but flew out when I unscrewed the cup, must've fucked something up. Needs careful inspection, maybe over the weekend.

I'm an adamant proponent of cumulus' comforters. If you're short enough, the M400 should be good. I'm 6ft and use the L500 down to around 0C happily. It's potentially drafty due to openness, but I'm not bothered. It's oversized for me so I can also drape it over like a blanket and read on my stomach.

Cumulus' temp rating is too conservative IMO, it's probably somewhere between the quilt 450 and 350.

Cheaper and less warm options are aegismax windhard quilt (had that one too) or alpkit's cloud cover.

Edit: I just checked and the m400 is actually 210cm long which is pretty good. 120 width might be a little tight tho.

Eh, it's getting built and rebuilt all the time so it's not presentable. I'm couched due to sciatica so I'm just tinkering constantly.

https://bikepacking.com/news/shimano-cues/

Damn maybe I should keep my 90s raleigh. Lovely bike, man.

sold now